How to set up optimization problems (20 common calculus 1 questions)

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A long worked problem set: each problem is set up from scratch, the step students most often get wrong, by a teacher whose calculus walkthroughs are a standard study aid.

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How to translate twenty standard Calculus 1 optimisation word problems into equations and solve them.

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